NEW YORK POST

It ends tonight — or does it?

The All-American Rejects’ unorthodox concert in the backyard of a house near the University of Missouri in Columbia on May 18 was shut down by police.

But one of the officers who’s a fan of the band let them play one last song to wrap up the night.

In a 10-minute video of the concert, the band were performing their 2005 hit “Move Along” when bandleader Tyson Ritter told his bandmates and the crowd, “Alright guys. Whoa, whoa whoa. We’ve gotta stop it.”

“The cops just shut us down,” Ritter, 41, added. “Sorry, y’all. We just got kicked off campus.”

“Holy s–t. How often do you get a blessing from an officer?” Ritter continued. “Well, I guess we’ve got one more song for you, and I’ll give you 1 million guesses to guess which one. You might recognize it.”

The band then performed their 2008 hit “Gives You Hell” for the final song of the night.

“Thank you so much for coming out you guys,” Ritter told the crowd. “Get home safely because the man let us keep playing. You take care, Columbia. Congrats on the graduations.”

Mark Fitzgerald, the Columbia Police Department’s assistant chief of police, told CNN that the band, their security staff and the crowd were “very cooperative” with officials — despite that the concert was “in violation of several local ordinances.”

Fitzgerald said that the officers who responded to the scene “listened to a couple of songs” before the patrol sergeant told the band of the rules they were breaking.

But the sergeant also informed the band that they could play one more song before they ended the concert.

“The Sergeant told me that he knew exactly who the band was and listened to them a lot while he was in college,” Fitzgerald shared. “The Police Department would be happy to have the All-American Rejects return and play in Columbia, hopefully with the proper permits and approval.”

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